Best Locks / alarms

Hello all have you any advise about bike security?
What's a good lock, cant seem to find a proper Krypton U lock in the UK.

 

More important than the lock is what you anchor it to. Ideally
you need a machine-proof ground anchor sitting in a couple of
cubic feet of concrete. Nothing less will do, even if it's inside
your garage. If you're parked away from home you must chain it to
a lamp post or something else not easily cut through. Also
install a dedicated, tamperproof motorcycle alarm. I'd recommend
the Spyball alarms I now routinely fit having lost 3 bikes to the
jackals over the last eight years.

The last one nicked had 4 locks (disk, heavy HT-steel chain,
cable-lock between the wheels and a U-lock) and was chained to a
trailer behind padlocked drive gates. They opened the "insurance
quality" gate padlock simply by inserting a bar and twisting,
then cut a slot in the trailer to slip out the chain. From there
they physically lifted and carried the locked bike into a van,
all without making a sound.

riccip

 

If they're *that* determined then I doubt there's much that will stop
'em 'cept maybe buying an SR125.

 

Unfortunately, even the humble SR125 would still be attractive to thieving
teenage scrotes.

After our TS was stolen for the second time (and recovered) we fitted a £40
alarm from Ebay, and bought a FOAD chain and lock.

So far, the scrotes have not re-attempted to steal it.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Good solution.

IMHO a bloody good lock is better than any alarm or immobiliser.

 

Akkshirley you're prolly right, next time I think an FOAD lock, alarm
sticker and flashing LED will do the trick

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Oh yeah, for sure, but I doubt that they'd go to the trouble of
ripping open locks, cutting open a trailer, then lugging the
still-chained bike into a van if it were an SR125!

 

The best deterrent I could find was an Alsatian we named "Gazza"
coz he's mental. It was the first dog at the kennels to hurl
itself at the fence trying to reach my throat. He lurks outside
all year round waiting for jackal meat.

riccip

 

An alarm with an explosive device added, ok if they attempt to steal it,
bang goes your bike,which would have been lost anyway, but more importantly
at least one less bike rustler in circulation, to steal your new
replacement.
If only life was that simple!.

 

our local bike thief got dead. After a succession of scooters and Honda 50's
he nicked a CBR 600. He never got out of 2nd gear. chased my the coppers he
hit something.

The only bad thing was the poor buggers bike was written off,
and it said in the news "motorcyclist killed in police chase" should have
said 17 years old motorbike thief killed while stealing too powerful a
motorbike.

 

You thick ****.

The *only* bad thing was a 17 year old kid died. The bike, well it's
unfortunate but no way is it in the same ball park.

 

am I the only one who doesnt feel sorry for the git?

if he hadnt nicked the bike he wouldnt be dead and the original owner
would still have had his bike and no claims discount.

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Adie
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He was 17. At 17 I did things I wouldn't do now; I like to consider
myself a constructive member of society- that would be lost if I'd got
what many may have viewed as my 'come-uppance' when I was younger.

 

at 17 [1] I'd never have considered nicking anyone else's bike or car
and I was astonished to find that several of my friends did so at that
age, even if it was their parents vehicle.

maybe I'm just too straight.

[1] or in fact at any age.
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I'm with you on this one. There's a difference between, say, having a go
on a mate's bike when you haven't passed your test, or riding while
under age, or zipping down the road with no tax, insurance or MoT -
we've all done it - and stealing someone else's property.

The one is stupidity; the other dishonesty.

 

No. A few years ago, a local youth who did a lot of burgling etc
killed himself on a stolen bike. I believe that the village he lived
in were celebrating.

Zactly. The sad thing in the local youth's case was that he was going
to visit his pregnant girlfriend in hospital, although I suppose it's
questionable whether having a dead father is better than having one
that's in and out of nick for their whole life.

 

But how does he end up as a thieving scrote? Is it genetic? In which case,
how come the thieving scrote genes didn't die out through his ancestors
getting put out of their misery in more robust eras? If thieving is
genetic, how come Australia isn't one big dodgy housing estate?

Basically, he was a thieving scrote because he was allowed to grow up as a
thieving scrote. Prolly because his parents were similar, or just
grindingly poor, simply the fucking underclasses who have no money, no
prospects, and nowhere to go. And live in a bad part of town, eat junk
food, drink too much and get into fights in the street and die years earlier
than the rich. And borrow money from loan sharks at appalling rates. And
never, ever, ever go to university. Etc.

Okay, we probably haven't lost a cure for cancer, but he wouldn't have been
a thieving scrote if he'd been brought up in a nice middle-class home, with
parents who know it's their job to put some effort into shaping a successful
member of society.

A big bit of bringing up kids is socialisation: putting across culture,
teaching them not to get caught, giving them the connections that will help
them get ahead. This poor **** very likely had none of this. Hate the
deed, not the person.

Rant over.

 

I bet the baby wasn't his, anyway.

 

<snip>

Sorry, still a thieving scrote.

 

What I found annoying was the motorcyclist
killed in police chase, newspaper article.

He wasn't a motorcyclist, he was a motorcycle thief,

A thief on a stolen motorcycle,
does not a motorcyclist make.